Rumor: Is Kanye Working with Mark Fast On His Next Collection?

Last London Fashion Week, before Kanye debuted his eponymous (and critically panned) collection in Paris, he hit up a bunch of big shows: Burberry, Christopher Kane, and then, seemingly randomly, smaller more indie designer Louise Goldin--only then it turned out Goldin was helping him with his first go at a line. This season, Kanye has only turned up once, yesterday at Mark Fast's show.
Coincidence? We think not. A while back a little birdie told us that Kanye had enlisted Fast for help with his second collection, set to hit the runway in Paris on March 6. Second time's a charm?
We have hope. Do you think he'll pull it off?

Last London Fashion Week, before Kanye debuted his eponymous (and critically panned) collection in Paris, he hit up a bunch of big shows: Burberry, Christopher Kane, and then, seemingly randomly, smaller more indie designer Louise Goldin--only then it turned out Goldin was helping him with his first go at a line. This season, Kanye has only turned up once, yesterday at Mark Fast's show.

Coincidence? We think not. A while back a little birdie told us that Kanye had enlisted Fast for help with his second collection, set to hit the runway in Paris on March 6. Second time's a charm?

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Call it intuition, call it fashion ESP, call it whatever you want. But when we predicted the Mark Fast show would pack a London style star-studded front row, we were right. The grand line-up included model Portia Freeman, TV presenter Zara Martin, stylist Grace Woodward and finally singers Mollie King (The Saturdays), Nicola Roberts (Girls Aloud) and Marina Diamandis. And the man sitting in the midst of all these lovely British beauties? None other than Mr. Kanye West, who pretty much avoided all the high octane, spotlight shows in London this season. (Too busy prepping his collection, maybe?)
If there’s one word to sum up Mark Fast’s aesthetic, it’s haute knitwear. He’s got the ability to make crocheted knits appear less grandma and more glamma (OK, sorry for that one.)

Are you a fashion designer in Paris looking for a job? If so, you're in luck: Kanye West may be hiring.
We have it on good authority that West, who did not plan a runway show for this Paris fashion week (but did get his secret concert reviewed by Tim Blanks), is interviewing designers to assemble a design team. He's also, we hear, briefed people on what he wants his next collection to look like: "sexy Margiela."

Remember how Kanye West took to Twitter yesterday to clarify that @DWbyKanye, the handle for his fashion line, was fake? Turns out he was just getting warmed up.
Between the hours of 11 p.m. and 1:30 a.m. (or between 4 a.m. and 6 a.m. in London, where Kanye was tweeting from--giving more credence to the rumor that he has moved there to work on his fashion line), Kanye tweeted over 70 times. I wanted to go to sleep because I had an early meeting the next day but I couldn't because the tweets were hypnotic and unfiltered and absurdly grandiose and philosophical and crazy--which is to say, I couldn't look away.
It's hard to say what any of it was really about. He tweeted about designing a school with Spike Jonze and mentioned something about how we need more people like Steve Jobs and McQueen and then something about the Jetsons (?). His epic ramble mostly seemed to be his way of introducing some new all-encompassing best-on-the-planet design company called DONDA, a name he's really really psyched about.
But before DONDA there was a mini biography of his experience in fashion. Here's what we learned (this is in chronological order):

Could a Kanye West men's line be in the works?
Maybe, according to Ford Models who recently tweeted: "Is Kanye also doing a menswear show this week in Paris?"
Obviously this is still just a rumor--Kanye's Twitter was uncharacteristically silent and the rapper has yet to confirm or deny if he will indeed be showing. However Ford Models doesn't usually make a habit of spreading gossip--perhaps the agency helped supply Yeezy with male models and the menswear line is mere conjecture. So far, anyway.